smtp package – error when email recipient has square bracket

[Peter Heggie]

I’m using the smtp package in tcl to send an email. I need to send the email to a RightFax server. The address starts and ends with square brackets. I’ll ask if an alternate address can be created but I’m thinking so far that the square brackets means something special to RightFax.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to send an HTML email from Cloverleaf to an address surrounded by square brackets?

I’m getting this error:

error in -recipients: unexpected character at beginning (found [FAX:Name@xxxx])                    

   while executing                                                                                

“error “error in $who: $aprops(error)””                                                            

   (procedure “smtp::sendmessage” line 260)                                                        

   invoked from within                                                                            

“smtp::sendmessage “$msg”  -header

 -header

 -recipi

ents “$recipients”  -servers localhost  -ports 25  …”                                            

Peter

Peter Heggie
PeterHeggie@crouse.org

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[David Barr]

Brackets aren’t allowed in the domain part of an e-mail address. They are only allowed in the local part of the address (before the @ sign) if that part of the address is in quotes. This doesn’t look like a valid e-mail address.

[Peter Heggie]

I was sure hoping I had that wrong, but after moving the square brackets I’m still getting the error (although it does not show the domain suffix now):

using this value: [FAX:Name]@xxxx

getting this error:

error in -recipients: unexpected character at beginning (found [FAX:Name])

   while executing                                                      

“error “error in $who: $aprops(error)””                                  

   (procedure “smtp::sendmessage” line 260)

Peter Heggie
PeterHeggie@crouse.org

[Peter Heggie]

I spoke too soon – I didn’t try putting the first part in quotes. That seems to work, at least I’m not getting errors. Let me check with the RightFac guy to see if it made it.

Peter Heggie
PeterHeggie@crouse.org

[Peter Heggie]

that did the trick –  thank you !

Peter Heggie
PeterHeggie@crouse.org

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